Thank you very much

That would be a yes. I have my Halloween tree set up in the front hallway, and my headstones out front. Halloween-...e600c3.jpg

Yes, and they are glorious!

Eh... not exactly... Spirit Halloween is Party City. They just rename themselves and focus their inventory for the holiday. There's a few popup locations, but if you watch it's often just that rebranding.

Americans have more celebration days I think. 4th July - Brits have no Independence Day, and no Brexit doesn't count. Thanksgiving which I believe might be bigger than Christmas which is huge in Britain. Proms, Spring Break, the Superbowl which is like a holiday as well as the cultural days that make the US so rich. Brits, we...we have the weather and er, Christmas.

Yes! They come every October, they are wonderful!

Canada too

Yes we do. And it's amazing what you can find in there.

Yes, other costume shops stay where they are.

Yep, some are the size of warehouses

Yes they are fun but ridiculously expensive

Canada does too - great store!

Yes they are great

Yep, it's a great way to use empty retail space. Everyone wins.

yes treasures form heaven you mean

I would never trust a little-creepy-shop-that-was-not-here-yesterday. It sounds like the beginning of an horror movie with a cursed antique.

Sounds logical, :D

I say both, but more often Fall.

To be sure, I do. IMG_2213-6...10564e.jpg

I will be celebrating my first British Christmas this year, when I travel to visit family in the UK.

This year would have failed you. The decorations everywhere are all gone, have been for a couple weeks. In fact, I would wager that black friday is going to be a s**t show considering that it's already been made public that merchandise is going to be short this year.

There’s some irony that the OP used the term “y’all” while calling the culture strange haha 😂

It's quicker to say "the 4th", "Halloween", and "Christmas". For me, it's all about efficiency.

A few people rent costumes. Many purchase them, but they are such poor quality they may not last long. Some wear them again in subsequent years. People often make costumes from old, used clothing, or sometimes by sewing.

think...sweetened condensed milk? but in the texture of wax? meh, if you're european you probably wont like it

The really mean people give toothbrushes!

Ya, you betcha.

No, one of the holiday rituals is “demonstrate a psychological theory.” Most people chose the Tragedy of the Commons. Me, I’d think the Milgram Experiment more in keeping with the spirit of the holiday, but my lawyer pointed to its complications.

My family carves pumpkins every Halloween...and decorates cookies for Christmas, and dyes eggs for Easter...

We dress up and have a contest for different categories of costumes

Nos such thing as taking Halloween too seriously. NO. SUCH. THING.

Mmm, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup, roasted pumpkin seeds...

The nice ones do, the mean ones don't.

Yes. Why is it ok to decorate for Christmas but not Halloween? You do your things but Imma get me some ghouls for MY garden.

You guys are getting days off?

It's the only holiday we have that doesn't come with some kind of baggage. It's literally just for fun, and also to scare away the spirits walking abroad that might steal our souls.

The same reason we love dad jokes

The best seasonal store ever. It's like Halloween Santa. Only shows up once a year and you never see it until spooky season

the big ones that are carved aren't eating pumpkins. Just like there is 'field' corn that's used for animal feed and corn products which is not the corn you buy at the market to eat.

i wish lol

Ummmm, has anyone told him about Christmas?

Where do you think we get our costumes and skeletons and witches and giant rubber rats and fake spider webs and coffins and monsters?